Polish president visits synagogue for Hanukkah
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- Polish president visits synagogue for Hanukkah
- Milan’s poor get pricey Christmas gift
- World Bank to lend Poland 975 mln euros for reforms
- A triumph of light – and of life
- Poland pupils grant teacher’s wish help people who are in need of …
- Local Man Details Journey From Guerrilla Fighter to Priest
- Another arrest in Poland’s football corruption scandal
Polish president visits synagogue for Hanukkah
The Associated Press
The Jewish community is describing Lech Kaczynski’s visit Sunday as a historic step. Kaczynski entered Warsaw’s century-old Nozyk synagogue just after sundown. The congregation rose and a group of Jewish children sang “Shalom Aleichem” — “peace be upon you. “The president lit a candle for a silver menorah.
Milan’s poor get pricey Christmas gift
ABC nline Australia
The unexpected Christmas gift was the brainchild of a police officer charged with guarding 40 kilograms of top grade Beluga caviar seized from smugglers. Rather than see the contraband go bad and be destroyed he suggested distributing it to the poor. Customs officers had tracked two couriers illegally transporting the caviar from Poland after it had been smuggled from its source in the Caspian Sea. Some beneficiaries of the handout confess that they are not quite sure what to make of their exclusive gift of tiny black fish eggs. As one priest working with the poor put it “we are very grateful but I’m not sure many of our guests will have a clue what it is. – BBCTags: community-and-society homelessness human-interest offbeat italy Search for news.
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World Bank to lend Poland 975 mln euros for reforms
Forbes NY
The loan which will be signed on Tuesday Dec. 23 was agreed a year ago and is not linked to the current global financial crisis the bank’s Polish unit told Reuters.
A triumph of light – and of life
Philadelphia Inquirer PA
21 2008 A triumph of light – and of life By David ‘Reilly Inquirer Staff Writer As a little boy in Czechoslovakia Emil Paul got pennies – gelt – for Hanukkah. Growing up in Romania Lili Goldener got gifts of sleds and scarves and coats each day of the holiday. And for her "crime" of being Jewish the Nazis sent Goldener to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. They sent Paul to the Mauthausen labor camp in Austria. Their parents and 10 of their 18 siblings perished in Nazi camps. But Emil and Lili survived and with them their faith traditions endure. They met playing soccer in an Italian refugee camp later married and on Thursday were among the 35 Holocaust survivors who gathered at the Jewish Federation’s community center in Cherry Hill to celebrate Hanukkah albeit a few days early.
Poland pupils grant teacher’s wish help people who are in need of …
Youngstown Vindicator H
In lieu of a holiday gift from pupils in her class at Poland Union Elementary this year Johnstone asked for canned and dry food for the New Life Church and God?s Warehouse Food Pantry on East Western Reserve Road in Poland. ?I saw the need and thought it was a teachable moment? she said. ?The kids could learn the true art of giving. ?Johnstone said her class began bringing in items the third week in November. The kids collected until Friday when Anita les director of the food pantry at New Life Church came to pick up the four boxes of goods.
Local Man Details Journey From Guerrilla Fighter to Priest
Wheeling Intelligencer WV
Marian Mazgaj his military experience in Poland during World War II helped lead to his spiritual calling. In Mazgaj’s new book “In the Polish Secret War: Memoir of a World War II Freedom Fighter” Mazgaj reflects on the Poland he knew as a child the sacrifices of war and his journey from guerrilla fighter to priest. 8 1923 in Gaj Poland Mazgaj was only a teenager when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 marking the beginning of World War II. As Nazi troops approached a town only miles away Mazgaj a cousin and a friend decided they would try to join the army.
Another arrest in Poland’s football corruption scandal
Polish SCA! NY
pl) Saturday 20 December 2008 15:21. dubbed the ?Prince of the North? was arrested in Gdansk northern Poland Thursday. Mafia involvementHe is suspected of taking bribes and fixing matches in the Polish football league. is to hear charges Friday.
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